Typical ASN VS BSN questions

I too am in Maryland, and pulled the requirements from montgomery college "ASN" and compared them to the requirements of UMB "BSN". For UMB 2 Units of AP, Ochem, an extra math and 2 extra englishes are required on top of the requirements for Montgomery college. The classes that are required take the place of clinicals in the two year program. There has to be some gaps in knowledge as its not just electives and humanities are being obmitted(Filler classes in my opinion), but sciences and nursing courses.

I understand that both programs take the same test to become a Nurse, but based on the knowledge is power idea, BSN's seem more with it.

Forgot that the Ochem was for JHU, CUA and Stevenson, not UMB. I plan to apply to all of them, and they have slight differences, really just the Ochem.

I was saying that the humanities were just filler classes, made no defense that they were of any real value. My arguement was with the sciences and nursing classes, the BSN takes more, plain and simple.

I am assuming that you went to HCC, if so you took only 9 Nursing classes, that is 6 less than any 4 year program is required to take. Since you got an BS in accounting I am sure you are aware that is 3/5ths the education. You can't, have that large of a disparity without some gaps.

For the core courses, you were mostly right the english and AP end up the same (glad about your req for AP, seems like 1 semester is not enough), but there is also a microbio req in addition to the statistics and nutrition classes you took, so thats 3(UMB)-4(other nursing programs in MD, since they req ochem) more core classes not covered by the ASN.

Then you have the actual nursing classes which go from 17 classes at JHU to 15 at UMB, and the gap is even greater when you compare credit hours (one of the classes at HCC is 1 hour and none are over 4 hours) JHU=56 UMB=64 HCC=33.

I am not attacking the ASN or ADN program, like I said I was always in the mindset that they were the same, but when I look at gap in education I have to assume there is a similar gap in overall understanding. As when you negate anyofthe nonscience, nursing, math classes the credits are UMB=100 JHU=94 and HCC=61. Of course these numbers can't tell the whole story (we all know JHU is better than UMB yet it has fewer "real" hours), but they do sum it up fairly well.

Thanks for being an ass anomously (yeah I can't spell) on a fourm, I hear that makes you a real man.

Edit: oh I just noticed the required GPA of 2.25 to get into HCC's nursing program, do we really want nurses that only learned 72.5% of what they needed to know at a community college...

And my orginal question pertaining to why the program is longer when the test and boards are the only thing that matters remains. I never attacked ASN ADN w/e. I was just trying to get a better understanding on what the differences pertain to, it was a question thats all, not trying to be snobbish or dog on ADN/ASN. There is a disparity in classes and as someone who is just starting school I wanted some info on what that was all about, are the extra classes not necessary (should I just memorize them) or do they foster better understanding of the human body and make a better Nurse. Obivously some of those classes were important enough for a Mitchell to take while also getting an ASN. Apparently mitchell is just a little insecure with something and took my question as a personal attack.